Comments on: "Are we related?" (5)

Hello! My sister married your cousin, and her son has been interested in family history, so I have looked for information about the Feduski family. You have done a great job tracing the family here in America, but it has not been easy to go back in time. Changed names make it very difficult. Please keep us posted on your search!

I have a Kalinowski who married Hedwig Szumilowski in the late 1870s or early 1880s in Sxembruk.. Trying to find out more. I also link to the Kalugiwicz family through the Cichocki family from Szembruk.

I do not recognize your names, yet. To see what I have found so far on the Kalinowski family in Szembruk, see “Kalinowska from Szembruk, West Prussia: Looking for Common Ancestors.”

My great-grandparents Marcin Szczepański and Anna Kalinowska were married in Szembruk in 1878. The marriage register is available online at FamilySearch, at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS8M-3HR9?i=312&cat=295340. I looked before and after, but did not see Hedwig, which would have been Jadwiga in Polish. Some of the entries are very faded, though, and difficult to read.

I have found Hedwiga/Jadwiga’s Szumilowski/Szymilowski birth on the 22nd of Oct 1844 to Ludwig Szumilowski and Rosalie Macholz/owa. She then has an illegitimate child in 1881 called Rosalie. On her father Ludwig’s death record in 1884 in Szembruk she is noted as
Hedwiga Kalinowski… I also have had no luck finding a marriage, I might have to check the surrounding villages. Thanks for your interesting site !